Outdoors

Glen Onoko has been the scene of dozens of serious accidents over the years, and several deaths, straining the region's all-volunteer fire departments.

A new boardwalk in Slaughter Beach gives visitors a close-up look at an osprey nest and a tidal pool at a picturesque spot along the Delaware Bay.

We have a lot in common with Washington D.C. For a decade, before the U.S. capital found its permanent home along the Potomac Rive ...

New Jersey is the first state to offer the online purchase of annual park passes, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Catherine R. McCabe announced. 

Work to demolish a 115-year-old dam in the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington should help restore the habitat of the American shad fish.

Any fires that spark in New Jersey on Wednesday could quickly get out of control, forecasters warn.

No injuries were reported in the weekend blaze in South Jersey, but massive clouds of smoke visible for miles put communities in the Pine Barrens and beyond on edge.

A recent analysis shows that visitation to U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land has risen by about 15 percent over the last decade, while its budget falls.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society educator, Sally McCabe talks the timeline of trees as they get ready to burst into blossom.

Water quality improvement projects in the Delaware River Watershed get $4.1 million under the new Delaware River Basin Conservation Act.

Wildwood's popular "beach box" storage rental system is expanding across municipal boundaries, officials announced. 

Pennsylvania is looking for new ways to fight the invasive spotted lanternfly, nearly five years after it was first discovered in Berks County.

The trace fossils, as they are known, are scattered along a winding trail at Valley Forge National Historical Park, on slabs purchased in 2011 from a nearby commercial quarry.

Nearly 8,000 acres of wilderness in Ocean County will remain undeveloped after officials closed on a $15,450,000 deal funded by the county's open space tax late last week.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation reports beaver activity is on the rise but not a nuisance.